Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the implications of critical realism for science, technology and innovation policy-making as one of the later research traditions in social sciences. Nevertheless, its main focus, according to the different stages of the policy-making cycle and extent of its contributing factors, is on the stage of "policy evaluation". Methods: Thi...

this essay evaluates the major methodological trends in research at the iranian academic educational journals based on scott’s methodological criticism. therefore, the present study sought to examine a small part of iranian educational research in the context of scott's taxonomy, including nine major fallacies: epistemic, homogeneity, causal, essentialist, value free knowledge, prospective, red...

This paper argues that ontic structural realism (OSR) faces a dilemma: either it remains on the general level of realism with respect to the structure of a given theory, but then it is, like epistemic structural realism, only a partial realism; or it is a complete realism, but then it has to answer the question how the structure of a given theory is implemented, instantiated or realized and thu...

We present an automated temporal partitioning and design space exploration methodology that temporally partitions behavior speciications. We propose block-processing in the temporal partitioning framework for reducing the reconngura-tion overhead for partitioned designs. Block-processing is a technique used traditionally in the area of parallel compilers, for increasing the computation speed by...

The fault injection techniques have been recognized for a long time as necessary to validate the dependability of a system by analysing the behaviour of the devices when a fault occurs. Reconfigurable hardware is appropriate to implement and test prototypes by synthesizing descriptions in high-level languages such as VHDL. Run-Time Reconfiguration (RTR) is a wellknown technique that reconfigure...

In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: Dynamic behaviors of historical Lorentz system for different signs of parameters.

The FPGA (re)configuration is a time-consuming process and a bottleneck in FPGA-based Run-Time Reconfigurable (RTR) systems. In this paper, we present a High Level Synthesis (HLS) method, based on the data path merging technique to amortize the hardware configuration time in RTR systems. It merges the Data Flow Graphs (DFGs) of two or more computational intensive parts of the application and ma...